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Re: Backun Mouthpieces

Author: nickma
Date: 2006-03-10 20:45

'Why would a mouthpiece maker using Zinner blanks - custom designed for the maker or not - charge double or triple the handmade Zinner-blank mouthpiece - especially when they are simply "their" machine made Zinner-blank mouthpieces? As far as I've yet been able to determine, technology has yet to trump artistry.'

That's the point! What is intrinsically of greater value in a Peter Eaton mouthpiece costing $500 than one of yours costing less than half that? There isn't. In fact someone has remarked that his mouthpieces appear to be less handworked than other *hand* crafted pieces, unless of course his finishing is so smooth that it is impossible to see the faint tool strokes, which it may well be. At opposite ends of the spectrum, I have found a $114 Morgan to be far more effective for me than a $500 Eaton, though I accept that someone else may go doo-lalie over the latter. The value is in the eye of the beholder. And if the beholder thinks that $500 is going to get him or her a better mouthpiece than another which is 'merely' $200, many will make a purchasing decision on that basis.

I don't object to craftsman musicians charging whatever they like for their products. If people buy them then that's great. Supply and demand dicatates success or not, and the economic concepts of Giffin are part of what makes a 'perfect market'.

Nick

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